It’s New Hampshire Primary Day … While you were sleeping the greatest political show on earth hit its stride, as voting began at midnight in the United States’ first presidential candidate primary. Read my report from the campaign trail: “You’re Reprimanded!” a tale of angry candidates and their even angrier supporters.http://politi.co/1T9M1Vy

MIGRATION FORWARD LOOK: Playbook hears the Commission is preparing new Schengen evaluation reports, including for Italy, and an implementation report on the Turkey deal. The Commission will likely ask for more hotspots and registration centers in Italy.

MIGRATION — MACEDONIA STARTS ITS OWN MIGRANT FENCE: The Macedonian army on Monday began building a 30-kilometer fence along its border with Greece to prevent migrants from entering the country, at times acting as a second fence in close range to existing barriers. “The idea is to send a message to migrants that there is a double fence, so give up crossing illegally,” an army official told the AFP news agency. More than 68,000 refugees have been registered entering Macedonia since the beginning of the year. http://politi.co/1Risy3w

MIGRATION — MERKEL’S MISSION UNACCOMPLISHED: Six meetings since October with the Turkish government, and Angela Merkel has an empty hand to show for it. Matthew Karnitschnig and Janosch Delcker explain that “Merkel’s biggest challenge in dealing with the Turks is that she has almost no leverage. Turkey has little sympathy for the refusal of some EU countries to take in refugees and has been frustrated by delays in the arrival of the promised aid.” http://politi.co/1Sc9FQU

MIGRATION — THE NEW GREXIT ISN’T DISAPPEARING FROM VIEW: Eurasia Group’s Mujtaba Rahman has written a pessimistic brief outlining how the Turkey deal is unlikely to slow down the migrant flow into Europe. That means more domestic pressure for Merkel and more temptation to wall the refugees up in Greece by reinforcing the Macedonia border (an approach supported by Poland and Hungary). In that case, Greece may be effectively ejected from Schengen, or face a social implosion that ejects it from the eurozone.

MIGRATION — FIVE CITIES ON THE FRONTLINE: Jacopo Barigazzi looks at how mayors and municipalities are dealing with refugees. http://politi.co/1nUmsdP

OPINION — THE GHOST OF RE-NATIONALISM: Ivo Daalder writes that an inward-focused, self-absorbed EU is a major threat to the transatlantic alliance. http://politi.co/20SqpOB

ECONOMY — REFUGEE CRISIS WILL SLOW GROWTH: The heads of the German and French central banks have warned in a joint article in Süddeutsche Zeitung that the influx of refugees to Germany won’t solve the country’s labor shortage problems, but would put a damper on economic growth in the longer term. Jens Weidmann, however, denied wanting to create a European ministry of finance — as some had interpreted his message. http://bit.ly/1W8oFO9

WHAT BRITISH POLITICOS ARE TALKING ABOUT: Whether the Conservatives broke electoral campaign spending laws in three crucial by-elections in 2014, a claim made by a Channel Four news investigation aired Monday night. http://bit.ly/1W7XMd7

FRANCE — LIFE IN PARIS THREE MONTHS AFTER THE ATTACKS: A team from New York magazine pounds the pavement in the 10th and 11th arrondissements to find out. http://nym.ag/1mojxcs

SPAIN — THE SANCHEZ PROGRAM FOR GOVERNMENT: The pitch to possible coalition partners from the Socialist leader is “for a progressive and reformist government” and includes a “new model for growth” and a plan to renegotiate the terms for Spain’s deficit spending with Brussels. http://bit.ly/1RjDAFX

NETHERLANDS — GETS ITS OWN CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER: The big event takes place Wednesday night in the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. TV personality Twan Huys is hosting, and it is organized by the editors of College Tour and NTR. http://bit.ly/1Q49VLv

SYRIA — HOW ASSAD’S PRISONERS DIE: Foreign Policy trawls through the grim reading of a new U.N. report. http://atfp.co/20RVL82

IRAN — THE APP RESHAPING IRAN’S ELECTION CAMPAIGN: “Given that Iranian state TV is the exclusive mouthpiece of hardliners — often publicly opposing the policies of Hassan Rouhani’s moderate administration — pro-reform candidates are also turning to Telegram as the most viable platform for spreading their message.” Saeed Kamali Dehghan has more on the instant-messaging app: http://bit.ly/1K80ize

ENERGY — COMMISSION LAWYERS AND POLICY ADVISERS AT ODDS ON NORD STREAM 2: Mea culpa, I missed this story Sunday night, but it’s worth a second look. The European Commission’s legal service says that, try as the energy department might, it doesn’t have any legal power to intervene in the controversial second gas pipeline from Russia into northern Europe. Anca Gurzu on the feathers that will rustle in Brussels and national capitals, worried about concentrating more gas transmission power into the hands of Russia’s Gazprom. http://politi.co/1Q3PmFh

PARLIAMENT — INTERPRETER-GATE CONTINUES: The background: EU interpreters say MEPs often speak too quickly for them to keep up.They also don’t like that MEPs increasingly speak in English, which is usually not their first language, reducing the MEPs precision as communicators. They’ve enlisted the Parliament’s top civil servant to urge MEPs to slow down and speak in their native language. I suggested it would be strange to prioritize interpreter wishes over MEP wishes if most find it easier to just skip interpreting and talk in English. A debate was born. Here’s a range of views on the issue:

Quick talkers are bad for all of us, argues one blogger | Interpreter complaints are not about interpreter comfort says Alexander Drechsel, rather “Speaking clearly and slowly when speaking in public is not a bone you throw the interpreters, it’s what makes communication happen.” | Treasa Lynch explains why interpreting depends on more than the interpreter | The ever-sunny Toby Vogel labeled the Playbook item a “typical Ryan Heath cheap shot” | Here are official European Commission tips for helping your interpreter.

REGIONS — COMMITTEE OF REGIONS PLENARY MEMBERS ARRIVE IN TOWN: The main activities of the first of five plenary sessions in 2016 kick off tomorrow, and include a speech from European Council President Donald Tusk. The topic du jour will be migration rather than Brexit, given the role local and regional authorities have to play in refugee integration.

BREXIT — EUROPOL CHIEF SAYS LEAVING EU WILL REDUCE SAFETY: The comments from Rob Wainwright, the head of Europe’s law enforcement agency, mark a new area of argument that may prove fertile for “in” campaigners. “I think it will make Britain’s job harder to fight crime and terrorism because it will not have the same access to very well-developed European cooperation mechanisms that it currently has today,” Wainwright told the BBC. http://politi.co/1PxL57o

TAXATION — COMMISSION TO RELEASE SENSITIVE DOCS TO PARLIAMENT: In a letter sent to European Parliament President Martin Schulz, Jean-Claude Juncker agreed to disclose 5,500 documents coming from the code of conduct group on business taxation, set up between EU countries and the Commission in 1997. Quentin Ariès: http://politi.co/1QRdc42

TAXATION — AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS SLAM EU EFFORTS, WARN OF ANTI-US TARGETING: The manufacturers claim the Commission has backtracked on previous promises, and take advantage of a mood of suspicion around anything “Brussels” proposes. http://bit.ly/1om6Wb6

TWEET REPEAT — WHEN 17 IDENTICAL TWEETS ARE NOT ENOUGH: MEP Eric Andrieu thought it would be fun to send out 18 identical tweets yesterday (he added a different newspaper’s name to the end of each tweet to gain attention). Unamused followers did not agree it was such a good idea. http://bit.ly/1SboB1G

CUT TO NEW YORK — BLOOMBERG CONFIRMS HE’S MULLING WHITE HOUSE RUN: Who said billionaires are out of fashion? Former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg would be the fourth New Yorker and second New York billionaire to join the ranks of leading White House contenders. You’ll only get an answer from him in March. http://on.ft.com/20RN4uD

SOCIAL 2016: Engage has launched “a digital dashboard that aggregates all available social media and fundraising data of every presidential candidate who officially entered the 2016 race.” http://bit.ly/20NIMo7

WELCOME TO THE BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL, STARRING ‘THE MIGRANT CRISIS’: The festival open this week. Kim Hjelmgaard previews the line-up: http://usat.ly/1W7Yt65

THE NEW JETLAG CURE: Stanford researchers are hopeful that flashes of light while sleeping will get your body into shape much quicker than extra sun exposure. http://cnn.it/1PxImLm

APPOINTED: Swedish national telecoms regulator Göran Marby is the new head of ICANN, the detached arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce that governs the Internet.